[Diy_efi] EFI for Briggs motor

[Vic Belanger]

Might work James.  I knew a fellow that got tired of the carb on his weed
trimmer so he installed fuel injection on it and never had any more problems
with it afterwards.

Vic
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From: "James Seabolt" <turbofiat at hotpop.com>
To: <diy_efi at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 9:47 PM
Subject: [Diy_efi] EFI for Briggs motor


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> As fond as I am of Weber carburators, I despise these junky carburetors
> Briggs and Stratton and Techumseh uses on their small one cylinder
engines.
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> The latest Walbro carburetors don't even have adjustment screws other than
> the idle speed!!
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> The other day I going to play around on my go-kart and couldn't keep the
> thing running. I seem to think all the bouncing around has messed up the
> float level. I just rebuilt it last year and it worked great for awhile.
> When I took it apart then, I noticed the float level was off so I had to
> adjust it. I think the same thing has happened this time.
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> I mentioned this awhile back when I was trying to get my Weber DFTA to
> accept the turbo I installed on my Yugo.
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> This may be too simplistic for a 4 cylinder car engine but what about a
one
> cylinder small engine?
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> I'm revisiting my idea of using a 555 timer chip to control the pulse rate
> of a single Bosch injector. Use a potentiometer to adjust the mixture to
> increase the frequency the injector sprays and the tach single from the
> coil to control the pulse width.
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> The carburetor will still be there. I'll only be using it as a throttle
> body and the choke. Basically just to replace the needle/seat and jets.
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> So does this sound too simplistic? If you have ever taken a lawnmower
> carburetor apart there is not much too them.
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> James Seabolt
> Tennessee, United States
> Homepage --->>> http://users.chartertn.net/jseabolt/
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> 2003 Subaru Baja
> 1980 FIAT 2000 "turbo" Spider
> 1968 Ford Fairlane 500 (Not a Ford Galaxie!!)
> 1987 Yugo GV 1500cc also turbocharged
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